Word: notionally
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...became a journalist because of John Conway," said Rosenfeld, who is deputy editorial page editor for the Washington Post. "Through his own example, he introduced me to the notion that an individual's sensibilities could come to terms with the crud world outside the comfortable cocoon in which many of us had lived...
...question is why so many otherwise alert and responsible citizens are so ready to accept the notion that police racism and other acts of discrimination are aberrations rather than commonplace occurrences. And how, in the face of such reports, citizens can nevertheless believe that it is time to disregard race as a factor and take a ''color-blind'' approach to social issues. The Fuhrman tapes effectively refute the claim put forward by conservatives, both black and white, that prejudice no longer has much impact on the lives and fortunes of African Americans. Like most black men, I can testify from...
...Baghdad airport, his Iraqi escorts suddenly diverted his car to a farm purportedly owned by Hussein Kamel. Ekeus was presented with 150 metal trunks and boxes crammed with documents that the Iraqis claimed the general had hidden from the government in his chicken house. American officials laughed at the notion that Hussein Kamel ever kept any records secret from Saddam. The steel cases, Ekeus said, "had not a speck of dust on them," a clear clue that they'd been quickly planted...
Cast at the last minute (after Meg Ryan left to make another American-twit-abroad epic, French Kiss), Arquette can do little but whine and pine in an impossible role. And the film simply forfeits belief with its notion that Laura, who stumbles through Burma like a girl in a monster movie after she's seen the giant ants, is a physician. She hardly seems smart enough to be a patient...
None of these societies is Nirvana. Indeed, the anthropological record provides little support for Jean-Jacques Rousseau's notion of the "noble savage" and rather more for Thomas Hobbes' assertion that life for our distant ancestors was "nasty, brutish, and short." The anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon has written of his first encounter with the Yanomamo: "The excitement of meeting my first Indians was almost unbearable as I duck-waddled through the low passage into the village clearing." Then "I looked up and gasped when I saw a dozen burly, naked, filthy, hideous men staring at us down the shafts of their...